GIRLS AND CIGARETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1922, Page 10

GIRLS AND CIGARETTES.

A DOCTOR’S WARNING. COMPLEXIONS IN JEOPARDY. Girls and women who habitually smoke cigarettes will destroy their complexions and become “putty faced,” according to Dr. Purdy, metropolitan officer of health at Sydney. “I don’t object to a girl smoking a cigarette occasionally,” said Dr. Purdy, during an interview, “but to see her as one sometimes does in a fashionable restaurant smoking cigarettes one after another means that she is sacrificing her good looks, her energy, and her health. “A pipe, I may say,” added the doctor, “is not nearly as harmful as cigarettes, but one could not imagine a pretty girl with a pipe. It would be even less enticing than a muddy complexion.” Dr. Purdy said he frequently had to examine lads and other persons seeking employment. Many of them were suffering from tobacco poisoning. This was particularly noticeable in the case of returned soldiers who, owing to the generosity of the Australian Comforts Fund, had probably acquired the habit of cigarette smoking. Medical officers during the war came to know the results caused by excessive smoking as “D.A.H.,” which meant “Disordered action of the heart.” Dr. Purdy said that girls smoking excessively showed the same symptoms as boys.